Why Not Give the Top 5% One Trillion Dollars?

I'm serious. It's time to put 'money' and 'mouth' together. Take the top 5% wealthiest in the nation and have them divide up one trillion dollars of our tax money...of course, tax free or else you will hear them fucking bitch forever! Now here's the challenge:

They are given 6 weeks (just like they gave Obama)to turn the economy around and make everything all better. Hell, I'll even give them 8 weeks. If they succeed, it's a trillion well spent. If they fail, they must return the trillion with INTEREST.

Hey, they keep telling us how Obama doesn't know shit about economics but that they have all the solutions and could fix it in a snap. (Hmmm, why do I have the feeling that for the first time, the rich bastards would turn down the loot...because they have no fucking idea what to do and their only mission is to talk Obama into the sewer so that they aren't, gasp, t-t-taxed.)

if you let them and the money out of the country, you'll never see either of them again

But the OP's got a good point - there's no way they'd accept such an offer because when you get right down to it, they know they don't really know jack shit either.

We chain them to the pillars down on Wall Street and they can keep wiping the pidgeon shit off while they play "masters of the universe". Or chain them to that Bull statue down there and watch them ride us to prosperity!!!

They haven't accounted for the first trillion yet.

I think we'll find the first trillion...

Some experts say its 8 Trillion.

That first TARP payment of 700 Billion was actually the second BailOut payment. The rich had already been given various amounts between August of 2007 and September of 2008, such that they were equal to or slightly more than what We the People thought was the "first" BailOut. And we have been offering trillions more to buy off the "toxic assets"

surplus into tax cuts for the wealthy. The trickle down theory didn't work very well over the years didn't it getting us to where we are now? I would love to get that surplus back with interest, maybe 33% interest like they charge on our credit cards.

They are so talented, why don't they invest in what will be marketable? isn't that their area of expertise? :rofl:

Given my investing history, it is a sure fire way to get the stock market and economy roaring upwards in record time....

problem. I don't think they are smart enough or their ideas solid enough to justify their conclusion. I see two ways of dealing with the situation. First, let them have their way and let the last twelve years go into overdrive. They won't just bust the country, but the world. This would provide some serious pain and make us the enemy of every other nation, like those guys who used to be our Big Bud's. If they were selling war and confrontation, I'd bet they were invested in those that would profit from a big ol' war. I think we could track that down through investments and political contributions.

If you look at how much these financial geniuses have been right over the last decade and think they were right, you should be playing 3 card on 52nd St.

But Hey, might be they are that smart but they misrepresent their interest

with tax cuts and deregulation. That's how we got where we are today, isn't it?

Which would only be them finally paying their fair share.

Been there and done that under Bush...

:rofl:

Why not follow the idea through like this: Give the top 5% of income EARNERS (not sleezy banks etc) who already PAY more percentage wise in taxes the same tax cut that you are giving everyone else and see if they stimulate the economy by going out and buying more things...enabling businesses to sell their products, etc.

I don't think it's a bad idea. I don't suggest just handing them 1 trillion to split up, but fair is fair...everyone in this country who works for their money should get a tax break....why should we punish people for earning more? Do we know what their jobs are and how hard they work and how many years of school/and the student loan debt that they carry?

Not every person who earns a little bit more is some sort of evil responsible for the collapse of this country. I can tell you though that when we start taxing those people who can afford to travel or buy flat screen tv's and take away more of their disposable income it is a disincentive to work hard and achieve more (like it would be for all of us if Obama stepped in and said that we all have to suck it up and pay a little more) and less people would be buying the top dollar products like cars, etc.

I think we're cutting off our noses to spite our face and we're villifying the wrong people.

Kris